Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
KRISHNA DASDevotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
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There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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